E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

EXPLANATION OF ST. JOHN S GOSPEL. 153
between natural
13. St. John draws a comparison
birth and sonship by grace. "Who are born not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, the prompting
of appetite, nor of the will of man, but are born of
God by Faith and Baptism
and therefore coheirs
with Christ to the vision of God in Heaven.
14. The Word was made Flesh that is, He
became Man. Without ceasing to be what He was
from all eternity, the Word who in the beginning was
with God has become flesh ; God is Man : and that
Man is God. Here in a nutshell we have the whole
doctrine of the Incarnation.
And dwelt among us, or as in the pitched His tent amongst us.
original,
These words mean that
Christ came to be for ever one of our kith and kin, to
form an alliance with mankind and to stay amongst us
as the Head of our race. He became Man in time
He will remain Man for all eternity.
We saw His glory that is, we the Apostles saw
His glory, all the mighty deeds by which He showed
forth His Divinity amongst men.
The glory as of the only-begotten means such
glory as becomes the only-begotten. Full of grace, as
author of the grace that works perfect redemption, and
full of truth as Author of perfect revelation. (See
Father Rickaby s Gospel of St. John and Cornelius a Lapide).